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Ling, 48, previously served as a co-host on the daytime talk show from 1999-2002 and returned as a guest last month as the show continues to search for areplacement for Meghan McCain.
“I want to clear up a mistake that I made on@jimmykimmellivethe other night,” the journalist began. “I said that when I was a guest co-host of the@theviewabclast week, that during a commercial break,@joyvbehartold me I was talking too much. Joy emailed me to say she didn’t say I was ‘talking too much,’ but rather that I was ‘talking over’ them.”
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“THE VIEW certainly is a different show than it was when I was on it 20 years again, but when I told Kimmel that I’m glad I don’t do It every day, it’s because in the age of social and partisan media, everything that the co-hosts say becomes fodder for attack. It takes balls to be on that show, and frankly, my skin is no where near being thick enough,” Ling concluded.
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OnJimmy Kimmel Live,she had said, “I guest-hosted for a week, and I’m so glad I don’t do it everyday,” before further reflecting on the experience.
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“On Monday, my first day, I got in a debate with some of the ladies about when Joe Biden called [Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy] a stupid SOB. Do you remember that? And they were saying ‘Well, he apologized. It’s okay,’ " Ling recalled.
“I said ‘No’ … And it was a little bit of a debate and it got written up like ‘Lisa Ling is causing chaos onThe View’… Because I get along great with the women,” she said, adding, “during a commercial break Joy did tell me that I was talking too much.”
“It is really difficult to get a word in edgewise,” she shared. “I did a little better this time. I mean, I was 26 when I did the show the first time around.”
In addition to Behar, the currentViewpanel featuresWhoopi Goldberg,Sunny HostinandSara Haines, though Goldberg is currently on atwo-week suspensionafter she argued that the “Holocaust wasn’t about race” on Monday’s episode.
source: people.com
